Toilet-seat paper and holder.



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TOILET SEAT PAPER AND HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED APII. I9. Isls.

12mg 5 11@ 6 INVENTQR.

CA TTORNE Y.

Patented J an. 18, 1916.

BY Qlif 7 `tact with the outer sheet of tissue paper.A

l in the direction of the arrows in both Figs. 4

spring 38 is compressed; therefore knife edge 2.9 is continually kept inabsolute conto the seat, grasp the outer sheet 39 and'pull and 5; thiswill pull thesheet over the hook tearing a small holej at the knife edge29. By pulling farther over the bent rod 14 the paper will cover thehinge member 10 and the hole in the paper will register with the hole inthe seat. After use, the paper may be torn along the edge 40. By thismeans a simple, compact and rigid device for holding the aper in spacedrelationship with the seat 1s obtained. A

1. In a device of the character described toilet tissue, a hook, havinga shank threaded at its extremity, a cup-shaped casting, a coil spring,and a threaded cap, said coil spring beingA placed around the shank ofsaid hook and adjacent the inner surface of said cup shaped casting,said cap screwing on the threaded extremity' of the shank of said hook,said toilet tissue positioned be tween said hook and said cup shapedcasting, said spring being normally in compression thereby in closecontact with saidtoilet tissue.

follows z-A-v holding the point of said-hook 2. In a device of thecharacter described,

-jal'toilet seat, a seat back, toilet tissue, a pint e, back,-at oneextremity between said tissue and said-back, the other extremity of saidspring free to vibrate in an aperture in said seat back, hinge members,one of which is lfirmly secured to said seat back at its one extremityanother of said `hinge members being firmly secured to said seat at itsone a latspring lirmly secured to said seaty extremity, the otherextremities of said hinge members revolubly secured to y said pintle, abent rod revolubly secured to said intle at one end its other extremity'extending through aperturesinsaid toilet tissue.

3. In a device of the character described, a seat back, toilet tissue,ing firmly secured to said seat back, a. hook having a knife edge pointextending through a hole in said tissue, a coil spring and la cap, saidspring encircling the shank of said hook and slidably positioned in saidcup, said cap slidably secured in said cup, and firmly secured to theshank end of said hook, ysaid spring being normally 4in compression soas to hold the knife' edge point of said hooky in Contact with saidtoilet tissue.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNEST R. HAMMER. Witnesses:

MrLDREn STOCKER, J. A. NoLAN.

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